Why Anti-black Racism Endures in America: On the Spiritual Necessity of Shame
Zhen Dao is the founder of the philosophy of Post-Daoism and the MogaDao practice tradition. A teacher and innovator of sacred, psychospiritual practices for nearly 30 years, she is a writer on a wide variety of spiritual, philosophical, and cultural subjects. She was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and has published fiction with Penguin Books. She lives in a small cabin deep in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she teaches Ethos Program Immersions and classes at the MogaDao Institute and trains and rehearses with the SACRA: Immanence Theater Company, of which she is the founder. In addition to directing SACRA, she writes the scripts and develops the choreography for the company's productions, and is herself a player in the troupe.
MogaDao is an original tradition of graceful, medicinal, and ensouling qigong, spiritualized asana, and somatic meditation, created by Zhen Dao, based on a radical faith in the mythopoetic and archetypal power of somatic experience. The MogaDao "techne," or practices, represent dynamic sacred architectures of human potential, nourishing and informing the fields of anxiety and trauma, imagination and vitality, essence and transformation, ritual and cosmology, sexuality, and sociopolitical responsibility. These techne are supported by the novel philosophy of Post-Daoism, originated by Zhen Dao, which combines the history of Continental thought with Eastern philosophical foundations, finding them both lacking in what Zhen Dao calls "justified ontology," or what it is to be an emotional, intelligent, complex, caring, sensual, and sexual human being within a larger frame of potential cosmological harmony.
This video was filmed and recorded by Brian Roberts, MogaDao’s Director of Technological Resources, onsite at the MogaDao Institute, in Santa Fe, NM, on June 3, 2020. Tremendous thanks go out to Brian for his instant availability and support for this project, given the timing of events in America relating to this talk, as well as his customary care and precision in the technical matters of recording and filming.